Former Surgeon Dr. Joel Roskind Transitions to Teaching
02/23/2010
After a thirty year stretch as a plastic surgeon, New York’s Dr. Joel Roskind now plans to extend his experience to other doctors, both established and new. Recognized physicians may do good from conferring with him in the fields of practice management and outpatient facility accreditation. On the clinical side, medical students at Boston University will have the opportunity to take Integrated Problems, a differential diagnosis course, from Joel Roskind.
Dr. Joel Roskind has been a medical renaissance man throughout his occupation. After finishing his bachelors degree at Franklin and Marshall College and Hofstra University, medical school at the University of Louisville and internships at the Montefiore-Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx and St. Louis University Hospitals, he went on to a fellow ship at the Christine Kleinert Institute of Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Kentucky.
As a practicing surgeon, Dr. Joel Roskind saw firsthand changes in the healthcare field leading to an increasing number of processes being performed outside the traditional hospital atmosphere. Always patient oriented, Roskind’s concerns about the safety of outpatient and ambulatory surgery facilities led to a long association with the AAAASF, including over 20 years of service as a facilities inspector. He is well positioned to assist operators of such facilities meet the highest quality standards needed by insurers today.
And, Joel Roskind MD is an knowledgeable teacher. He has previously taught at Boston University, as well as the Nassau University Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital, Cornell Medical School and the University of California, San Diego. He is also the former Voluntary Clinical Assistant Professor or Surgery at the University Of Miami School Of Medicine.
Dr. Joel Roskind looks forward to bringing his know how to a broader audience of medical scholars, practicing physicians and surgeons and operators of ambulatory surgery facilities. In what assures to be a very active retirement, Joel Roskind also plans to follow studies in Judaic spirituality.
